This is a YA book that feels like a YA Book.
Lilah is hard of hearing and often feels stuck between the hearing and Deaf world. The one place she always feels at home is Camp Gray Wolf, a summer camp for the Deaf and blind community. This year she is returning as a camp counselor. Lilah quickly finds her place among the counselor’s warm (and sometimes contentious) tight-knit community and prepares for a summer of new friendships, self-discovery, and her first big romance.
This is a perfect summer read. If I had read this as a teen I would have been obsessed with the idea of going to camp. This book felt like it was squarely aimed at teenagers. The characters thrive in the insular world of camp where older adults and parents play a very small. I hope Sortino dives back into this world one day.
I’m a little annoyed that the cover of the book has a couple on it because this book is about SO MUCH MORE than the romance and I don’t think the cover reflects that. It seems like all publishers want to push is romance. Feels like a disservice.
1/2 of the blogging duo at Books and Sensibility, I have been blogging about and reviewing books since 2011. I read any and every genre, here on the blog I mostly review Fantasy, Adult Fiction, and Young Adult with a focus on audiobooks.